Traps
[træps]
Definition
(n. pl.) Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. [Colloquial.] Furniture, goods, things, stuff, luggage, effects, small articles (of household use).
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Examples
- Your moral clap-traps have an excellent effect in England--keep them for yourself and your own countrymen, if you please. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Little recked Mr Podsnap of the traps and toils besetting his Young Person. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Without remarking that man-traps were not among the amenities of life, I said I supposed he was very skilful? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Let them put the horse in the stable, and tell the surveyors they can come back for their traps, said Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Man-traps and spring-guns are set here at all times of the day and night. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He accepted, and is coming with his traps this evening. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Why, the traps have got him, and that's all about it,' said the Dodger, sullenly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Where's her traps? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If you say yes I'll run you over in the motor, and you can telephone your maid to bring your traps from town by the next train. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I will send over for your traps, and you can come to the Grange in time for dinner. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Animals, who dread traps, have that feeling. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- BOOK THE FOURTH -- A TURNING Chapter 1 SETTING TRAPS Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As to what I dare, I'm a old bird now, as has dared all manner of traps since first he was fledged, and I'm not afeerd to perch upon a scarecrow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I dare say I had deserved his reproof--but I was not going to help him to set traps for Rosanna Spearman, for all that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The particular style of percolator shown in Fig. 9 has no valves or floats or traps that continually get out of order and that make the cleaning of a percolator so disagreeable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These defences proved therefore to be mere traps for their garrisons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not in regular government pay and employment, to lay traps? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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